Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about rich, middle-aged man under siege, a subject that McHale researched during several summers as a waiter in the Poconos. He grew up in Scranton, Pa., the eldest of six children, and attended Jesuit schools and Temple University. Now he lives in Vermont, which he calls "the last frontier in the east." He intends to keep up the writing pace as long as he has something to say, and he is fatalistic about how long that may be. It is foolhardy to predict a young writer's future, but if burgeoning energy and imagination count, McHale...
...days, the biggest force assembled in South Viet Nam since Richard Nixon fell heir to the war was poised on the rugged Laotian frontier. When the signal came from Washington early last week, hundreds of American helicopters lifted into the dust-choked sky at Khe Sanh, then darted off to landing zones, where South Vietnamese troops awaited them. At the same time, South Vietnamese tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled westward on Route 9 and thrust across the border into the jungles of Laos. A new and possibly perilous phase was beginning in the long struggle for Indochina...
...answer to a newsman's questions. Le said China may respond to the invasion because Laos and North Vietnam share a frontier, the two countries have Communist regimes, and China signed the 1362 Geneva agreements on Laos...
...that the West has been closed off for a good long time, it is only right that we face a simple fact. Namely, that the frontier just wasn't good for much. Once the land had been developed and its riches plundered, the West became a place like everywhere else-a place for people to go crazy and kill each other...
What then remains for Astronauts Shepard, Roosa and Mitchell this week? What emotional frontier can Apollo 14 assault? However scientifically rewarding the mission might prove to be, if all goes well, it will after all follow footprints already made in the lunar dust. But the world's fascination has not disappeared with the diminution of magic...